Friday, February 13, 2009

Aren't I being patient?

Wow! The things we birds do for research. I guess it's no worse than what people go through filling out their tax or census forms, only the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and licensed banders are way more concerned about our well-being than the IRS or the Census Bureau seem to be about people. You can see lots and lots of photos of some of us chickadees getting little transponders put on our leg on Laura Erickson's Flickr page.

Banding gives people a lot of important information that makes them understand a lot more about us. I don't know, though--sometimes I wish they'd just try the Vulcan Mind Meld.

Blue Moon Alert!

Laura's Flickr Photostream

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Photos on this blog

All the photos on this blog, unless otherwise noted, were taken by Laura Erickson. She's okay as far as people go but, if you can believe this, she's never had a single one of us sign a release form, much less paid us for modeling! Talk about presumptuous!

Eneagled

We birds on Twin Beaks would love to see "the Dr. Ruth of Ornithology" teach Stephen Colbert how to explain about the birds and the bees to his son Stephen Jr. before the poor Bald Eagle has to pick up the facts of life on the streets. Tell the Colbert Report that they should have Laura Erickson on!